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Purgatory: Canto 4 -- The First Ledge
Purgatory: Canto 4 - The First Ledge. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto IV - Ante-Purgatory: The First L. Sunday, February 20, 2005. Purgatory: Canto IV - Ante-Purgatory: The First Ledge. Dante was a follower of Plato. Dan Colvin, Sun Mountain, 2000. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood 12:30 AM.
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Purgatory: Canto 6 -- Prayers for the Dead
Purgatory: Canto 6 - Prayers for the Dead. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto VI - Ante-Purgatory: Those who D. Tuesday, February 22, 2005. Purgatory: Canto VI - Ante-Purgatory: Those who Died by Violence. In Ryan Rutan's "Holy Ninjas," the spoof I played in Canto XVI of the Inferno. Where Dante argues for the separation of Church and State), and to the general mismanagement of civic life both in the Empire in general and in Florence in particular.
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Purgatory: Canto 7 -- The Valley of Flowers
Purgatory: Canto 7 - The Valley of Flowers. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto VII - Ante-Purgatory: The Neglig. Wednesday, February 23, 2005. Purgatory: Canto VII - Ante-Purgatory: The Negligent Rulers. Plato, in the Republic. Of the former, Dylan Thomas would cry -. Do not go gentle into that good night,. Old age should burn and rave at close of day;. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right,. Rage, rage aga...
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Purgatory: Canto 8 -- Guardian Angels & Serpent
Purgatory: Canto 8 - Guardian Angels and Serpent. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto VIII - Ante-Purgatory: The Negli. Thursday, February 24, 2005. Purgatory: Canto VIII - Ante-Purgatory: The Negligent Rulers. Contrapasso is always at play in the Comedy. That we find him clumsy and naive in his approach to love, someone who did not engage it head on like he does in the Comedy. Someone who pursued the lesser good rather than the goal to which he was oriented.
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Purgatory: Canto 9 -- Dante's Dream of the Eagle
Purgatory: Canto 9 - Dante's Dream of the Eagle. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile. Purgatory: Canto IX - Ante-Purgatory: The Angel G. Thursday, February 24, 2005. Purgatory: Canto IX - Ante-Purgatory: The Angel Guardian. Psalm 91, on which "On Eagle's Wings" was based, reads,. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood 2:41 AM.
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Purgatory: Canto XI -- The First Cornice: The Humble Prayer
Purgatory: Canto XI - The First Cornice: The Humble Prayer. Saturday, February 26, 2005. Canto XI - The First Cornice: The Proud. I met a traveler from an antique land. Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone. Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,. Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,. And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,. Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,. Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,. And on the pedestal these words appear:. Thoug...
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Purgatory: Canto XII -- The Proud: The Humble Prayer
Purgatory: Canto XII - The Proud: The Humble Prayer. Saturday, February 26, 2005. Purgatory: Canto XII - The Proud: The Rein of Pride. Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.". Dante spends too much time with Od'risi, who reflects most appropriately his own venial sin of pride, and on which he'll reflect for some time yet. "Ah, what a difference between these trails/ and those of Hell: here every entrace fills with joyous song, and there with savage wails!
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Purgatory: Canto XIII -- The Second Cornice: The Envious
Purgatory: Canto XIII - The Second Cornice: The Envious. Tuesday, March 01, 2005. Canto XIII - The Second Cornice: The Whip of Envy. And a moment later he's discovered the purpose for it. Eyes wired shut, these penitent would find no value in movies. Take special note of the catechism section in the activities - I plugged all seven of the capital sins into the online catechism, and the only one of the seven that had its separate and exclusive list was envy. Now, why is that one wonders . . ?
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Purgatory: Canto XV -- The Middle Cantos
Purgatory: Canto XV - The Middle Cantos. Saturday, February 26, 2005. Purgatory: Canto XV - Love - it's a burning thing. Welcome to the first of the three most important cantos in the entire Comedy. Which is more than just my opinion). These three cantos stress the ideal of love, and they are situated right in the center of the comedy, numbering 49, 50, and 51. Like canto 19 of La Vita Nuova. Posted by Sebastian Mahfood @ 6:44 AM. Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. View my complete profile.
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Purgatory: Canto 19 -- Fifth Cornice: Avaricious...
Purgatory: Canto 19 - Fifth Cornice: Avaricious. Monday, March 07, 2005. Canto XIX - The Ascent to the Fifth Cornice and Dante's Dream. Blessed are they who mourn: for they shall be comforted.". The dreams we dream closest to dawn are those that are thought prescient and upon which we might rely to tell us what our future brings. In La Vita Nuova. We ought to prepare ourselves against that day by following Msgr. Griesedieck's advice to "live simply so that others may simply live.".
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Purgatory: Canto 21 -- Praise of Virgil
Purgatory: Canto 21 - Praise of Virgil. Sunday, March 06, 2005. Purgatory: Canto 21, The Fifth Cornice - Statius. For those who haven't read the Thebiad. Which was enough, it seems, to have provided for Statius's salvation in his having read it, but not enough to provide for Virgil's in his having written it. After the introductions have been made and Statius has explained more of the nature of the mountain, he adds that he was one of the "more than a thousand poets" kindled by the flame of the Aeneid.
